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Lycos is a search engine and web portal centered around broadband entertainment content. It began as a search engine research project by Dr. Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. Bob Davis joined the company as its CEO and first employee in 1995. Lycos then enjoyed several years of astounding growth and, in 1999, became the most visited online destination in the world with a global presence in more than 40 countries. Lycos was sold to Terra Networks of Spain in May 2000 for $5.4 billion, forming a new company, Terra Lycos, maintaining its postion as one of the world’s largest Internet companies. Shortly after the merger Davis left the company to become a venture capitalist with Highland Capital Partners in Boston. In October 2004, Lycos was sold by Terra’s parent company, Telefonica, to Daum Communications Corporation, the second largest Internet portal in Korea, becoming, once again, Lycos, Inc. Lycos remains a top 25 Internet destination in the US. It is the 13th largest online property worldwide according to comScore Media Metrix. Lycos also remains a top 5 Internet portal, behind Yahoo, MSN, AOL and MySpace.

During 2006, Lycos introduced services including Lycos Phone, which combined IM, video chat, real-time video on demand and an MP3 player. In August of the same year a new version of Lycos Mail (free email provider, formerly known as Mailcity.com and join with EudoraMail) was released that allowed sending and receiving mega files, including unlimited size file attachments. In Nov. 2006, Lycos began to roll out applications centered around social media, including the Web’s first watch & chat video application, with the launch of its Lycos Cinema platform. In Feb. 2007, Lycos MIX was launched, a tool allowing users to pull video clips from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video and MySpace Video, creating playlists where other users can add video, comments and chat in real-time.

Overview

Overview	Information
Address	mail.lycos.com
Company	Lycos
Overall score
POP
IMAP
SMTP
Mobile
Fully Web 2.0 (Ajax)
Antivirus
Antispam
SSL (Web / https)
SSL-POP
SSL-IMAP
SSL-SMTP
Search capability	Content, Sender, Recipient, Subject
Sorting
Free ads
Storage	3 GB
Attachment size	Unlimited
From login page to inbox	1 step
Address book

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